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Burke County adopts zoning changes to ease housing, approves rezoning on US 64
Summary
The Burke County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a zoning text amendment that reduces minimum lot sizes and eases frontage requirements to encourage housing development, and approved a rezoning for a Morganton-area property to allow expanded mixed use and small-scale business activity along U.S. 64.
The Burke County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to adopt a zoning text amendment to streamline site-plan standards and relax minimum lot-size and frontage rules, and separately voted 5-0 to rezone about 4.5 acres along U.S. 64 from Residential-3 (R-3) to Residential Mixed Use (RMU) for a local home builder.
County planning director and deputy county manager Alan Glines told commissioners the code changes would allow smaller lots where public sewer is available, reduce a universal 100-foot frontage requirement to a 70-foot standard (with flag-lot and cul-de-sac options), and consolidate repeated site-plan language to Article 7. The board adopted ordinance number 2025-dash-06 to enact the text amendment after the…
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